A list of things that I wish I could go back in time and change for the better
#2: My first day of kindergarten
I want to slap little five-year-old Rowan in the face. I wish I could go back to the exact moment when he woke up that morning with a smile on his lips, excited to start his school career. I wish I could get him out of bed the night before and tell him to run away. I wish I could tell him that school was going to be the worst hell that he would experience. Ever.
I want to tell him to throw his new outfit in the toilet. I want to tell him to jump out of his window and break his leg so that he would be able to skip a few days. I want to tell him to cherish his joy and store it in a jar because it was going to escape and it wasn't going to return for ten years.
But I can't do that. All I can do is sit back and watch my happy memories fall away like burning paper and see Finley O'Donoghue paint my heart with tar.
Con #0: you can't turn back time.
Pro #0: you can turn over a vinyl when one side is over to help yourself cope.
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The Pros and Cons of Breathing (Coming Soon)
Teen Fiction"I see more cons than pros," she tells me. "Life is just one big jumbled mess of broken hearts and endless battles and words left unsaid." © valarie rae, two thousand and fifteen.
